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80
Viewer score based on 14 votes.

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78
Critics' score based on 6 reviews.
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This is sooo much better than one that came out this year and more scarier.

May 16,2010
RWB12624

Its cool, Exciting and scary

April 24,2010
Siprich

One awesome-ass horror movie! Wes Craven is pretty creative in the horror way- and sucks to be johnny depp- he had to die in sad way

April 19,2010
drummerbk56

The greatest movie of all times!!

July 07,2008
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Critic Reviews

A Nightmare on Elm Street is tailor made for those who like their gore leavened with thought-provoking ideas - something that is a rarity in this genre.Full Review

James Berardinelli
ReelViews

A Nightmare on Elm Street is a highly imaginative horror film that provides the requisite shocks to keep fans of the genre happy.Full Review

Variety

Here the idea of sleep as the ultimate threat is still fresh and marvelously insidious, and Craven vitalizes the nightmare sequences with assorted surrealist novelties.Full Review

J.R. Jones
Chicago Reader

A Nightmare on Elm Street puts more emphasis on bizarre special effects, which aren't at all bad.Full Review

Vincent Canby
The New York Times
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